Now the sprinter who failed to make her high school’s athletics team is the world’s fastest woman.
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American Justin Gatlin, considered the biggest threat to derail Bolt’s quest for nine total Olympic golds, won his heat easily and finished with the day’s best time, 10.01 seconds. But he brilliantly recovered to get back in the race, hunting down the leaders and powering to gold.
“I have accomplished so much, I am blessed and I think this is my greatest medal ever”.
Shelly Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson and Christania Williams will all move to the semi-final of the women’s 100 metres.
Farah insisted he didn’t blame Rupp for the incident, instead suggesting it was the result of his own long stride, while also revealing his daughter was the motivation behind his comeback.
She was clearly healed once she got to Brazil.
Here’s how twitterati reacted to Thompson’s win. As good America has been in the swimming pool, Jamaica plans to return the favor at the track. She was seeking to become the first woman in track to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the event.
ROWING: The U.S. boat was in third place halfway through the race when coxswain Katelin Snyder shouted the magic words: “This is the U.S. women’s eight!”
Rio Olympics is the venue for the emergence of new achievements – Jamaican athlete Elaine Thompson has defeated all the rivals and managed to win the gold medal overcoming the 100 m race.
With a time of 10.71 seconds, Thompson cruised to the gold and won by over a tenth of a second. Best, who became the first track and field athlete to compete at an Olympics after playing in the National Football League, competes for Saint Lucia, the birthplace of his father.
A thrilling night was rounded out with a nerve-jangling finish in the heptathlon, where Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam took gold by a slender 35 points from Britain’s defending champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.
It was the first time in track and field history that seven women have gone under 11 seconds in a single race. The last lap sent a roar throughout the stadium, as Paul Kipngetich of Kenya charged ahead; the British great then countered down the stretch. It was his eighth successive win in the 5,000 or 10,000m at a world championships or Olympics since 2011. After crossing, he collapsed. However, there would be no podium encore. In the final, she got stronger as she approached the line and left what had been billed as an uber-competitive field in her wake. But Bolt will turn 30 on the last day of these Olympic Games, meaning this could be his last chance for the medals. Ennis-Hill grabbed silver; Brianne Theisen-Eaton of Canada won bronze.
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English Gardner and Tori Bowie, both hoping to end the United States’ 20-year gold medal drought in the event, qualified fifth (11.09) and sixth (11.13). His winning leap, 8.38 meters on his last attempt, beat South Africa’s Luvo Manyonga by one-one hundredths of a meter. Defending champion Greg Rutherford of Britain took bronze on Saturday.
